Description: Two sections of a marble
panel
(w:
0.31 x h:
0.73
and w:
0.20 x h:
0.73).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Lapidary capitals: 0.07-0.06.
Date: CE 222-235 (reign)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
diui M[agni Antonini fili]
⟦Imp(eratoris) C[aes(aris) M(arci) Aureli Seueri]
Alex[andri] Pii F[elicis Augusti]
5pon[tificis ma]ximi [tribunicia]
pote[state c. 1 - 4] co(n)s(ulis) [c. 1 - 4 p(atris) p(atriae) et]
Iulia[e Mamaeae matris Aug(usti)]⟧
et ca[strorum et Senatus et patriae]
Sa[brathenses publice]
Diplomatic
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
DIUIM[................]
⟦IMPC[...][.............]
ALEX[.....]PIIF[.............]
5PON[.........]XIMI[..........]
POTE[.....c. 1 - 4]COS[c. 1 - 4....]
IULIA[.................]⟧
ETCA[.........................]
SA[.................]
3-4: Erased with continuous horizontal strokes after his death in 235.
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
[--- of the son] of deified [Antoninus] M[agnus], Emperor Caesar [Marcus Aurelius Severus] Alexander, Pius, Felix, [Augustus],
chief priest,holding [tribunician] power [for the ? time], consul [? times, father of the country and of] Julia [Mamaea, mother
of Augustus] and of the camps [and of the senate and of the country]; the people of Sabratha (scil. set this up publicly).
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 44, whence IRT, 2009, 44, whence EDH 059037; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. From left:
44,
75: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS 776 Leica)
Fig. 2. From left: Above:
48,
44,
75; Below:
50: Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CS 217)
